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Ireland will blow through carbon targets without radical change - climate council

CCAC says government needs to address uncertainty around how Ireland will reduce its emissions

Chair of the Climate Change Advisory Council, Marie Donnelly says Ireland must address the gap between climate action and ambition now and start to see emissions fall consistently. Picture: Maxwells

Ireland will not meet either of its carbon budgets unless urgent action is taken immediately to begin reducing emissions rapidly, the Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC) has said.

Publishing its annual review today, the state’s climate watchdog has said the government is on track to blow through its own legally binding climate targets and that a radical change in approach is needed.

The carbon budgets are two five year ceilings on how much carbon Ireland ...